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...Janitor...
...just met, describes Capri as a passe resort, and puts down her wealthy parents as "bourgeois." When he escorts her to her Roman town house, she climbs up the stairs-and then climbs down again as soon as he is gone. After descending still farther, she goes into the janitor's basement apartment, where her father greets her with a curse and a vicious slap across the face. When the boy telephones to wish her good night, she masks her sobs as laughter...
What strikes you first is the lack of activity. The Summer News, a twice-weekly newspaper which the university pays the CRIMSON to publish, is filled with reviews, speech stories, features on the Newport Folk Festival, articles about Congressional hearings the draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves lemonade on the lawn every Wednesday afternoon and maintains a "social and information" center...
...enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen a gun, 800 rounds of ammunition, and had robbed two homes. "Sure we'll take him," said Becker, who promptly sent the boy to work off some of his aggressions under the supervision of the school's janitor, washing windows, shoveling sidewalks, sweeping floors. The youth is now completing his junior year at Schuyler and learning to be an electrician in one of the school's shop courses. "We have no problem kids," says Becker confidently. "We just have kids with problems...
...each game one of the players will stop at Cahaly's and buy two packs of Bee's playing cards. They have to be Bee's. "As soon as a card looks slightly ratty we throw out the deck. We were burning something like 14 decks a night. The janitor who emptied the waste-baskets was going mad," the "Emperor" explained...